FREE Special Seminar Hosted by the NIHI on 15 April 2014
Clinical Decision Support: Leveraging Health Information Technology Standards to Improve Outcomes
A FREE Special Seminar Hosted by the National Institute for Health InnovationSchool of Population Health15 April 2014
Presented by: Professor Robert Jenders
Co-Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics & Professor of Medicine,
Charles Drew University, Los Angeles, California USA
Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA
Attending Staff Physician, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Dr Robert A. Jenders broadly addresses in his research the domain of clinical decision support (CDS), with a focus on knowledge representation and health information technology (HIT) standards in the context of electronic health record systems. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA, he received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Marquette University; completed his MD degree and did his medical residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; earned a master’s degree in computer science at Northeastern University; and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics at Harvard University and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Outside of his home institutions, Dr. Jenders has served since 1998 as co-chair of the clinical decision support work group of Health Level Seven International (HL7), the principal international standards development organization for health information technology.
In this talk, Dr. Jenders will survey the state of the art and science regarding HIT standards that are applicable to CDS. In this analysis of the standards landscape, he will emphasize those standards concerning knowledge representation and delivery as well as convey the latest developments regarding these standards and related efforts to develop new standards.
For further information please contact Helen Gu h.gu@auckland.ac.nz
openEHR and HL7 New Zealand Statement of Collaboration
Added link to the openEHR NZ page according to “openEHR and HL7 New Zealand Statement of Collaboration” signed on the 19 March 2012.
“HL7 New Zealand and the openEHR Foundation recognise the importance of developing Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems which are interoperable in New Zealand. Both parties agree that both organisations provide crucial input and facilities in this area and that close collaboration is required to achieve this goal.”
The link to the full PDF document of the statement can be found here.
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To make HL7 NZ more social, we added links to our Facebook page and Twitter account on Contact page and the side menu bar.
HL7 New Zealand OID Version 1.2
As of 11 March 2014, the New Zealand OID Registry was updated to Version 1.2.
The registry can be viewed and downloaded in the following page: New Zealand OID Registry
These OIDs are issued by HL7 New Zealand as the registration authority for New Zealand for OIDs derived from the HL7 International trunk. The HL7NZ root is 2.16.840.1.113883.2.18 Requests for New Zealand OIDs from this root can be directed to admin@hl7.org.nz
Merry Christmas from HL7NZ
Once again it is my privilege to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year on behalf of HL7 New Zealand.
In some ways it’s been a quiet year in New Zealand, although there has been plenty of activity in the background, both nationally where members of the Board have worked on local standards, and internationally as HL7 International has worked through the issues raised by making its standards free for anyone to use.
And in addition, there has been a very significant amount of work being done on the latest HL7 standard – FHIR – that has the potential to make healthcare interoperability significantly easier to achieve. This is critical in this modern age where it is well acknowledged that a person’s healthcare information needs to be available to them – and to clinicians – in a wide range of situations and using a range of devices.
Here in New Zealand we are working towards a closer relationship with other organisations in the healthcare IT space – members of the HL7 Board also serve on the HINZ Executive, we have a strategic relationship with openEHR and representatives have also been appointed to HISO. Hopefully we will be able to help accelerate the adoption of standards in the New Year.
Next year we plan on being more active locally. We want to show that standards can facilitate interoperability and innovation, so we are planning a series of practical events that developers – and users – can participate in to showcase this. Our hope is also that we can attract new vendors into the healthcare IT space, and show that the initiatives embodied in the National IT plan will make core clinical information more accessible to those who need it in a manner that preserves the person’s privacy. More details will follow in the New Year!
So I trust that 2013 has been a good year for all of you…that 2014 will be even better and I wish you all the compliments of the season.
Kind Regards,David HayChair, HL7 New Zealand
AGM 2013
HL7NZ AGM – special meeting held 12 December 2013
IHIC 2013 Presentation “Future Directions: FHIR in New Zealand (a personal opinion)”
In IHIC 2013, Dr David Hay described a number of possible scenarios where FHIR could add value in the New Zealand context. The views are his own, and are not intended to represent the views either of HL7 New Zealand, nor of the IT Health Board.
Ihic preso v2 from David Hay
HL7 FHIR Connectathon 4 Video
In this video, Dr David Hay talks about the purpose and impression of the Day 1 of HL7 FHIR Connectathon 4 as an official host and organiser.
HL7 FHIR Connectathon 4 – Impressions from Rene Spronk on Vimeo.
HL7 New Zealand presented IT perspective of Christchurch earthquake
HL7 International invited HL7 New Zealand to present the Care Co-Ordination Issues that occurred during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake from an IT perspective. The attached presentation was given by the Chair of HL7 NZ – Dr David Hay – to the plenary session at the Working Group meeting in Boston on Monday, 23rd September 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
IHIC 2013
HL7 Australia is honoured to host the 14th International HL7 Interoperability Conference 2013 (IHIC 2013), which will be held on 28th-29th October, 2013 in Sydney, Australia.
The first Australian FHIR Connectathon will be a feature of the event.
IHIC promotes world-wide engagement and thought provoking discussion in research and industry application of HL7. Following on from the highly successful IHIC 2012 in Vienna, this annual two-day event brings together implementers, information architects and researchers working on e-health interoperability.
IHIC conferences promote world-wide engagement and thought-provoking discussion on research into HL7 and related e-health standards and their application in the health industry. Following the highly successful IHIC 2012 in Vienna, this two-day event will bring together implementers, information architects and researchers working on e-health interoperability.
IHIC provides a forum for presentation and discussion of concepts, models, implementations and innovations for interoperable e-health solutions. The conference also aims to facilitate an exchange of knowledge between research, science and the business of health care. More Info here: http://www.ihic2013.org.au/